View source for TC 372 Technical Specification

CEN TC 372 has prepared a draft for a CEN Technical Specification document, intended to provide guidance for implementors designing data exchange formats for EN 15744 and/or EN 15907-based metadata. On October 5th, 2011, this draft was submitted to CEN national member bodies for approval.

According to CEN regulations, a Technical Specification (TS) is to be reviewed every 3 years at the latest. This initial TS, entitled ''Guidelines for implementors of EN 15744 and EN 15907'', addresses the following issues:

* '''Encoding of EN 15744-based metadata'''. Since this standard is closely modelled after the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES, ISO 15836), any encoding endorsed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative for use with the DCMES will also be accepted as a valid encoding for EN 15744.

* '''Encoding of EN 15907-based metadata in XML'''. This section gives a set of design rules to be observed when developing an XML-based exchange specification for EN 15907. It does not specify an "official" XML schema as such. The design rules cover several issues such as ways of expressing relationships, and an application-specific schema layer that separates data elements defined in EN 15907 from their specialisations which can (and should) be enriched with controlled vocabularies or other restrictions.

The current draft of the CEN Technical Specification [http://filmstandards.org/media/TC_372_WI_00372004_(E).pdf can be downloaded here].